Italy must place in existence new diplomatic and commercial strategies in order to increase export towards the side the South of the Mediterranean



The Italian exports in North Africa today represent a solo national 2.9% of the export total and that back the entire continent African is attested to most modest a 1.5%. There is therefore absolute need to increase these quotas percentages. It has emphasized the professor Arduino Paniccia of Istituto Italiano of Strategic Studies and teacher of Strategic Studies and international Economy to the University of Trieste taking part last Tuesday to Venice to an encounter on the topic "the Arabic spring and the Middle Eastern situation; which perspectives for the commercial and crocieristici traffics in the adriatic ports associated in organized NAPA" from the The International Propeller Club Port of Venice.

"The change of direction in foreign politics of France after the fall of Sarkozy, the contraction of destined the public resources in Europe and Italy to the activities of support to the internationalization for Arabic the so-called enterprises and the spring, with the relative change of institutional interlocutors in the Countries of the side South and the wars in Middle East - it has found Paste - has created, as consequence, the "escape of Europe from the Mediterranean"".

Paste has evidenced as Italy, with its enterprises of medium dimension, flexible and highly specialistic, its ports and its important logistic position, has the potentialities and the ability to cover all the necessities and the technical aspects, manufacturers of necessary supplies and formation for a corrected development of the Mediterranean area. But against export Italian towards the European Union pairs in 2011 to 60% of the entire national foreign trade, that it becomes with the other European Countries not EU pairs to beyond 70%, the exports towards Africa constitute a meager part of the total. "It is clear has concluded Panicci - than there is an absolute necessity by Italy to invert this tendency. The dialogue Mediterranean Euro and the Union of the Mediterranean, all theses to the objective to create a common area of free exchange, is reverted or disappeared. But Italy with a new diplomatic strategy of commercial support must just here enter in scene and".

In the course of the encounter South is found as during the last few years the economies of the nations of the sides and East of the Mediterranean has shown a consisting rate of growth, trend that would have to continue also in the year in course. Draft of a market of beyond 600 million consumers whom in 2011 an interchange with the Countries of the European Union in increase of 12% has recorded, for a value of about 320 billion euros. The quota Italy is of 60 billion euros and, regarding 2010, in the 2011 an increment has been recorded almost 8%. Between the Italian regions, the single Lombardy, with beyond 14 billion euros in 2011, represents a quarter of the entire national interchange.

"If from a part, we face to a scene in constant evolution - it has observed president of Propeller Club Port of Venice, Massimo Bernardo - from the other, in Europe we are engaged in communitarian projects, as nets TEN and in particular the corridor n.1, the n. 5 and that Balkan planned in order to re-balance that flow of traffics that more and more interests the Mediterranean area, that western one but, still more, that oriental than this sea, in by now the necessary rationalization of the flows between the North and the South Europe".

Bernardo has explained that in this context the transnational initiative called NAPA not only joins also (North Adriatic Ports Associations), that groups the ports of Koper, Ravenna, Rijeka, Trieste and Venice and that aimed at the realization of a real harbour range of the South Europe in which the project of intentional offshore port joins also, from the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice that with great farsightedness has proposed it, but from the same European Union that partially of it the study has financed. "Then - it has continued Bernardo - it comes quickly to ask us which it will be new geography of the economy and, in particular, that of the transport in the Mediterranean holding also account of the globalization of the markets, traditional and emergent, than of it they will condition the development without to forget that, for example, China has acquired important terminals, Pireo and Salonicco, this last one in order to manage its commerce from and for Balkan Europe or, in order to make another example, the large birth of other hub in the ports of the Africa north. It comes to ask to us - it has found - if our ports, and those in particular adriatic ones, will be destined to roles of mere cabotage and feederaggio or, if, in this new economic context, they will be able to compete accommodating also commercial or crocieristiche ships of last generation. Consequently, seen how much at this point is already happening in the field of the so-called "economies of scale" more and more necessary and applied for the economic crisis in existence, which it will be the future of all those "transitari" as less and less involved shippers and shipping agents for more and more tightened relationship between companies of navigation and terminalisti".

"As then - Bernardo has still wondered - to exceed the "war between poor", that which, as recently has been seen in Assoporti, that it has recently characterized the relationships between Harbour Authorities of two our seas facilitating cross-sectional understandings as happened between Genoa and Ravenna and in times passed between Genoa and Trieste always to the detriment of Venice. Which then it will be the role of the smaller so-called ports in the Alto Adriatico system: those of Monfalcone, Portonogaro, Chioggia and Portolevante. Which he will be, at last, the role of the International Propeller Club that he represents, own for the various entrepreneurial appartenenze, the true catalyst of the world of the enterprise in the immense cluster of the economy of the transport. Own from - it has concluded Bernardo - the "cultural start would have here to leave up", I yield of the experience of who weevers this economy setting itself every day to I confront directed on this nobleman, how much complex frontier, for giving to indications and strategies credible and possible in order to construct to a more and more tight dialogue between politics and world of the enterprise exceeding sterile parochialisms, self-referential esternazioni or unattainable goals, behaviors these not online with how much the new globalization imposes to begin from the acquaintance of the culture and the postulated indelibles of life of our interlocutors are Libyan they, Egyptians, Lebaneses, Syrians, Chineses or Indians, solo in order to cite of some".

"Sure the "Arabic spring" - the directive Prime Minister of the The International Propeller Clubs has asserted in a its note national, Umberto Masucci - involves in the short period an instability who creates problems is to the traffic of the goods that, still more, to the crocieristico traffic; but, in the mid term, they are sure that the Countries of the side South of the Mediterranean will be (but already it they are) the most important partners of Italy and the marine traffics will be developed with very positive effects also on our ports".